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Theresa May might have expected today to be a moment of Brexit triumph as she catches up with her European counterparts in Brussels, where they are set to approve the terms hammered out by negotiators of Britain’s transition out of the EU. Instead, she has been embroiled in a row about who is making the passports Brexit Britain will have. The boss of the British firm which is set to lose out to a Franco-Dutch company on a contract to make the new iconic blue passport has been demanding answers from the Government, telling Radio 4’s Today programme that “this icon of British identity is going to be manufactured in France”.